Print Magazine Decline in the U.K.

• Sales of consumer magazines in the U.K. has declined by 60% between 2005 and 2018. In 2005, there were 1.2 billion copies of consumer magazines sold in the U.K. In 2018, that number dropped to 481 million.
• In the U.K., print magazine revenue declined "from over 1 billion British pounds in 2011 (approximately $1.29 billion USD) to roughly 634 million British pounds (approximately $821.5 million USD) in 2018."

Trends

• A July 2018 article stated that there was "an 80% increase in UK digital magazine consumption with over 13 million magazines read in the last year."
• This article states that "the two major trends in magazine publishing in 2020 and beyond will be: Using data to deliver targeted digital content . . . [and] [u]sing data to identify the print and digital balances that increase profitability."
• Another trend is "that digital consumer magazine ad revenue will increase to $13.1 billion by 2022."